Carlo Guaita Biography
Carlo Guaita (1954 - ) was born in Palermo in 1954. His research moves from modernist-style reduction, understood as that movement founded on the rules established by Clement Greenberg during the 1950s, with the premise of once again overcoming the impasse of the canvas, moving radically with respect to the Italian situation marked by the Transavantgarde. His is a journey through sculpture (cement, stone or cardboard), painting and books, using a lexical grammar that concerns the titles of the series on which he has been working for some years now (such as Daguerreotypes, Orizzonte, I Collapseti, Instead of poetry , The Voids, Uncertain Encyclopedia, Ghosts, Wells, Immersed). His research compares monochrome painting and landscape, the latter understood as antagonism but also as a generating substratum. In these various aspects the artist creates a continuous stratification, almost an archiving. He tries to bring the painting to its definitive completion. Carlo's work is represented by Galerie Bernard Bouche in Paris, Galleria Gentili in Florence and Rita Urso in Milan. He has exhibited in Italy and abroad and among the main recent exhibitions we remember: the personal ones at the Gerard Faggionato Gallery in London, in 1998; Kunstverein, Bludenz, in 2000 and at the Bernard Bouche Gallery in Paris, in 2001. In 1988 he participated in the Venice Biennale (“Aperto 88”) and in 1998 in the collective exhibition “Due o tre cose che di lui”, PAC, Milan.
